helen tilbury box tutorial

 

Hi! My name is Helen Tilbury & I am a Zimbabwean, currently living in South Africa {since 2006}. I have 4 children aged 13, 16, 19 & 21, two of whom are away at university for ¾ of the year. I live in Durban, very close to the East Coast {Indian Ocean} although I am not a beach person at all! I love the look & smell of the sea but hate sand & overcrowding!
I have a wonderful partner who I’ve been with for 30 years & he helps & supports me in everything I do, including my scrapbooking, which I started with in 2003. I had no idea what I was doing in those first few years but as time went by I came to understand what it was truly all about & in 2008 started my blog, which put me in touch with the international crafting scene, which taught me everything I know today.
You can find my blog here & I am on Facebook here, Pinterest here, Instagram here & You-Tube here. I also have the pleasure of designing for Inkido {Papercraftscandinavia}, 2Crafty Chipboard {Australia}, Scrap365 Magazine UK & Scrap Around The World, my own challenge blog.
I have a day job that keeps me busy & I also love to get creative with photography, videos, DIY, decorating, organising & gardening too! Scrapbooking as an art form holds a very special place in my heart & I am over the moon with happiness to have been selected as a designer & ambassador for 7dots Studio!

Helen’s blog

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Hello everyone! HELEN back again to share my first 7Dots Studio Tutorial with you today.

I had such fun working on this tutorial & I hope that you enjoy it & that it inspires you to make something similar! I have a cupboard FULL of boxes & containers ready to be “made over” so I chose this lovely strong box to cover & decorate as a gift for my university-going daughter when she comes home for the holidays. She’s a crafty gal herself & keeps tickets, letters from her boyfriend & all sorts of other sweet & sentimental little bits & pieces that she can now put into this box. I will probably end up making her a couple more to make a matching set!

 

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

helen tilbury box tutorial

 

Products used all came from the Illumination Collection. I used the JOY paper for the base & the ACCEPTANCE paper for the lid. I also used element stickers, word stickers & the stamp set 2. The Illumination Collection works really well with Gelatos because of the pale grey colours of a lot of the papers. They can be brightened up really easily to make funky adolescent gifts. I’ve already showed my daughter on Face Time & she loves her new box! Yes I am terrible at keeping surprises!!

Thanks for stopping by to see my tutorial. Let me know if you make something similar 🙂

Helen